The Lions of Aston Villa - Becoming King of the Jungle Once More....

What are they smoking?

2012-12-19 18:05#72977 The FM Rookie : What are they smoking?

I hope you mean Celtic after that pittance of a compensation offer

2012-12-19 18:08#72978 jason_connolly1987 :

2012-12-19 18:05#72977 The FM Rookie : What are they smoking?

I hope you mean Celtic after that pittance of a compensation offer

Sure

Villa took on their Midlands rivals, Wolves, in the two sides' first meeting of four in the next few weeks.

Christian Benteke was rested but his deputy, Andi Weimann didn't disappoint.



The result from the other semi final...

Bristol City 0-3 Chelsea

"We're ecstatic, you dream as a kid of lifting the F.A. Cup and we've every confidence of doing that."
Gabby Agbonlahor

Well done Jason! Glory at Villa Park!

THE RUN IN

After only one league game in their previous five games (a 2-1 win over Burnley at Turf Moor - Thomas Ince & Darren Bent on the scoresheet) Villa are fifth after 31 games, with 3 games in hand over four of the top seven.



The run in brings five home games and two away games.



"We have seven fixtures and none are easy but we are targeting a minimum 18 points alongside advancing to the Europa League final. People may say I'm unrealistic, but I'm ambitious - as is my squad. What's the point in being in football if you don't believe you can win?"
Jason Connolly

I can see you getting maximum points, a Europa League Final and an FA Cup! Go strong!

Looking good Jason Keep it up!

Cheers lads!

Ten games - ten wins is the aim... And eleven from eleven if we get to the Europa League final

We are cheering you on mate!

2012-12-19 21:59#73030 The FM Rookie : We are cheering you on mate!

Too kind

We should get an FM Scout night out over here in the Emerald Isle by the way

2012-12-19 22:01#73032 jason_connolly1987 :

2012-12-19 21:59#73030 The FM Rookie : We are cheering you on mate!

Too kind

We should get an FM Scout night out over here in the Emerald Isle by the way

Don't get your hopes up, I won't be in the country for a large part of next year!

2012-12-19 09:36#72925 jason_connolly1987 :

2012-12-18 22:16#72897 LfcLandoUk : Thanks alot for that But how do you play as in counter, standard, attcking?

Mate I just realised that I never answered you properly!

I would play control mostly, this would be home games or away games to teams like Spurs, Liverpool, Everton, etc as I like to keep possession and break quickly.

I very rarely play attacking unless I need a goal late in a game or I'm playing two legged fixtures such as Capital One Cup SF's or European knockout games.

Away to the likes of the Manchester clubs and Chelsea, I normally play contain with short passing to frustrate them. If you keep the tempo quick and use counter attack, they can be caught out if their play is broken down.

It's worked O.K. for me, but the squad is still thin and I've had a massive amount of games this season - 30 in the league, 6 in the Capital One Cup, 16 in the Europa League and 7 in the F.A. Cup (cheers replays!), which is 59. I stil have 8 league games, and possibly 3 in each the Europa League & F.A. Cup, which would be 73!!

Sometimes when players get tired, injured or suspended and tactics won't work!

Play about with the players you have in pre-season and see how it goes and what suits you best!

Thanks alot, this is really helping atm

Glad to hear it mate

Brilliant updates Jason, shows why this story is so good

OPPA GANGNAM STYLE!

My respect for Randy Lerner has increased tenfold. If he had a Twitter account I would be linking him to this story